There are three dukes in the capital, and I don't know if there are 180 marquises and earls, so Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, is not too eye-catching purely in terms of his title.
But Qiu Luan's upward trend in recent years is very eye-catching.
More than ten years ago, when the Marquis of Xianning came to Qiu Luan, he was already in a very poor and desolate state, probably similar to the original Xu Miaojing.
And Qiu Luan doesn't have much talent, and he doesn't look like he can revitalize his family business.
But there is always a way, Emperor Jiajing came, and he also launched a great ceremony.
Therefore, in the early years of Jiajing, Qiu Luan was also the one who found the code of wealth, and his status quickly rose by supporting the great ceremony.
From a mere empty-headed marquis, he became the chief military officer at the age of less than thirty. In the past few years, he went out to Guangdong and Guangxi to ply his trade.
Qiu Luan is only in his early thirties now, and it seems that he can still be active for another twenty years...
Apart from the three princes in their twenties, Qiu Luan is considered a very conspicuous figure among the "younger generation" of nobles in the capital, so he is very proud of himself.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be arrogant and violent just because the beauty ignored him, but he didn't expect to encounter someone even more arrogant.
Xu Miaojing made inquiries around and found out about the residence of the Marquis of Xianning. There was no other way, there were too many marquis and counts in the capital.
It was already approaching dusk when I arrived as an uninvited guest.
"These are the exact words of my brother-in-law Qin Dewei. I ask Mr. Qiu to think twice." Xu Miaojing concluded after passing on the words.
Qiu Luan was a little surprised. He originally thought that Feng En would go to the bachelor Xia Yan for help, and he might be able to exchange some benefits with Xia Yan.
Unexpectedly, the person who jumped out to make trouble was Bachelor Qin from the Hanlin Academy. A bachelor with no real power, what use was he to Qiu Luan?
Thinking of this, Qiu Luan replied proudly: "If you want me to make peace with Feng En, Academician Qin doesn't have enough face."
Xu Miaojing continued to convey Qin Dewei's meaning: "My brother-in-law also said that if the Marquis refuses to accept it, he will follow the old rules of the capital and come out to set up the Dragon Gate Formation, or else he will simply admit his mistake."
Qiu Luan was so angry that he almost broke his guard. Last time, he was careless and caught off guard, and was beaten by Feng En unprepared.
It is simply unreasonable for him to admit his mistake to Feng En!
"Okay! Then let's meet and ask someone to comment!" Qiu Luan agreed, "Don't say I'm bullying others, you should understand the rules. See you on the street outside Apparition Palace in three days!"
Opposite the street outside Xianling Palace is Xiyuan Hutong. The face Qiu Luan lost here must be regained here.
Xu Miaojing replied like this, and then said to Qin Dewei: "This is reasonable. To put it bluntly, the biggest rule is that domestic slaves fight in groups, but domestic slaves cannot beat any master."
Therefore, even if the accused goes to the court, it is just domestic slaves fighting each other, and the master is innocent.
A man is a boy until he dies. Qin Dewei suddenly felt a little expectant, and the soundtrack of a superstar in troubled times sounded in his mind.
Xu Miaojing said very positively: "Brother-in-law, you have too few people here. Do you want me to borrow someone? Maybe if we find more people, we can get dozens of domestic slaves."
Qin Dewei objected: "How can you borrow someone from the Marquis of Xianning? And how many people dare to offend the Marquis of Xianning for you?"
Xu Miaojing asked habitually: "What should we do?"
Qin Dewei said calmly: "Wisdom, reasoning depends on wisdom! There is no future if you only use violence and killing!"
Three days later, Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, made a lot of heroic announcements, claiming that he would fight with Qin Zhuangyuan to reason.
It also aroused positive responses from many nobles, the most important of whom was the British Duke Zhang Rong.
After all, he is a military attache with a very obvious upward trend, so Qiu Luan still has some respect.
Everyone gathered their heads and decided to bring one hundred and fifty domestic slaves to the scene first, which should be enough.
After asking around, Qin Dewei didn't make any big fanfare and couldn't attract many people at all.
And everyone has said that whoever dares to help Qin Dewei is a traitor in the noble circle!
The commotion of the dandies did not affect the functioning of the government.
Dongchang was ordered to investigate the relationship between Lianghuai salt merchants and Jiangbei officials. After more than a month of arduous investigation, a copy of the investigation results was finally submitted to Emperor Jiajing.
The investigation results pointed out that some Jiangbei officials had close relations with salt merchants, which were supported by evidence.
But after investigation, it was discovered that the scholar Cai Angcai, whom the emperor was most concerned about, had no connection with the salt merchants.
This result surprised Emperor Jiajing. He had originally determined that Cai Ang would have some unclear relationship with the Lianghuai salt merchants, but he did not expect that Cai Ang would be so innocent.
In fact, at this time, Emperor Jiajing had already made up his mind to restructure and restore the salt industry to China.
Uncle Emperor Xiaozong did something wrong, and he, Zhu Houcong, wanted to correct it!
But Emperor Jiajing was a very "powerful" person. He originally thought of using Cai Ang's collusion with salt merchants as a breakthrough to kill chickens and scare monkeys while promoting the reform of the Salt Law.
But Cai Ang is actually a clean person, so it's not easy to use it as a breakthrough.
Emperor Jiajing could only curse secretly, is there something wrong with Cai Ang's mind?
He had no interest in anything with the Lianghuai salt merchants, so why was he so active in acting as an opposition?
Emperor Jiajing continued to think about it and skipped the section about Cai Ang. After looking at several names, he saw the name Zeng Mian again.
The Jiajing Emperor, who was busy with everything, might not be able to remember this name, but the Dongchang Memorial reported that this man was the stepfather of Qin Dewei, the man who helped quell the Liaodong Rebellion in the 14th year of Jiajing's reign.
First, when Zeng Mian's father was doing business in Yangzhou, he distributed 100,000 jins of Huai salt for the salt merchant Ma's family.
Secondly, when Zeng Mian was on patrol in Liaodong, Liaodong was experimenting with the opening up of China, and the Ma family once transported grain to Guangning warehouse in exchange for salt prospecting contracts.
Whether there were any violations, Dongchang did not have time to investigate in detail, so he simply listed the things.
Emperor Jiajing became suspicious. He did not doubt Zeng Mian, but the Qin eunuch.
On the surface, there were no violations of Zeng Xian's actions, and there was no evidence of any violations. Emperor Jiajing didn't think there was anything wrong.
But Eunuch Qin also deliberately included Zeng Mian, which seemed very much like seeking personal revenge. Moreover, he also wanted to play a trick on the emperor and give Zeng Mian eye drops?
If I remember correctly, the younger brother of the eunuch Qin was in Liaocheng, and Zeng Mian was the county magistrate at that time.
Emperor Jiajing raised his head, looked at the eunuch Qin who was standing in front of him, and asked heart-wrenchingly:
"Why do you want to focus on investigating Zeng Mian? You even investigated everything Zeng Mian's father did!"
Eunuch Qin said respectfully: "The reform of the Salt Law was initiated by Qin Dewei, so I believe that we must focus on investigating the people around Qin Dewei.
As Qin Dewei's stepfather, Zeng Ming should be carefully investigated. And no matter what the results are, they should be listed for your Majesty's reference."
Emperor Jiajing thought about it and found that this was indeed the case.
